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Comment by thijsvandien | Hacker News Reader

> I can't read the article, because I don't have a Medium account.

I’m getting so sick of this trend of requiring (or at least heavily pushing) an account just to read some content. My latest frustration was the Microsoft community forums taking that turn. No, I don’t want to “engage”—I just need to find the solution to some damn problem. Now I can add Medium to that list.

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Haha this comes up all the time here. Just to be sure, you can click on the https/lock icon, select cookies and block them and you'll never have this problem.

nice.

Same here. I even block JavaScript, too. Not just on Medium, but any website with a paywall or a similar free content blocking mechanism (wired.com, many newspapers etc).

I have an account, they're using my first name to directly target me (which is making me incredibly uncomfortable), and they're telling me I ran out of free articles this month and are asking me to upgrade.

Haha, same - this is so frustrating.

I've never had a Medium account. I had no idea an account was something you'd need, other than for posting stories. I use Pale Moon as a browser, with Noscript, uBlock Origin and Flashblock. (As a rule of thumb, if I can't read it in Pale Moon with those running, it's probably not worth reading.)

Well isn’t it gave and take? You get something you’re looking for and they want to use that opportunity to learn. I think that’s an ok deal.

Try opening in a private tab. That usually gets me past the three article limit. The limit to that isyou can't comment.

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